This AI App Will Help You Prove You Didn’t Use AI to Write Your Paper
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Summary
A new feature by the grammar checking AI app Grammarly allows users to leave a ‘paper trail’ to show that the written text came from them specifically.
The tool works by tracking what the user is writing on a Google Doc or Word file, outlining which parts were typed, and which were copied and pasted, and whether any Grammarly-generated AI was used.
This can be helpful for students wanting to prove their submitted papers are original works.
However, the feature only works for one session at a time, and if a user closes the file and returns to it later, the authorship report will mark existing text as ‘Origin unknown’.
Additionally, if a user retypes text from another source into the document, the feature will mark it as 100% typed by a human, even if it is AI-generated.
Therefore, while it is a good starting point, the feature is not foolproof.
